John Galen Locke

John Galen Locke (6 September 1871-1 April 1935) was Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado during the 1920s.

Biography
John Galen Locke was born in Essex County, New York in 1871, and he moved to Colorado as a young man and served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. After his military service, he became a homeopathic doctor, and he was nicknamed "the Toad" for being short and fat. During the 1920s, he became Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, setting up an office at 1325 Glenarm Place; he was an unusual Klan leader, as he was married to a Catholic, his secretary was Catholic, and his lawyer was Jewish. Locke was not motivated by racism, but by power, hiring bodyguards to protect his office, collecting medieval armor, and becoming a political boss. He turned the Colorado Klan into an extremely powerful voting bloc with 138 organizers who donated to Masonic lodges and Protestant churches in exchange for support. Colorado came to have a strength of 35,000-40,000 members, the second-highest per capita Klan membership of any state after Indiana. He died in 1935.